Re: Gregnews: US report proves EP lies

I am affraid that physicists go where the money is.

Maybe this is the same for patent lawyer. ;-)

I know a biologist that worked in the service of Ilya Prigogine. There 
was a team working on the studdy of ant. Because there was no money for 
research on ants, they stated to focus on the analyse behaviour of a 
team of football player. The goal was to monitor the football play from 
above and analyse the behaviour of the player as individual or as a 
team... exactly what they do with ants colony.

Why football? Because there was money in it like for the developpement 
of AI for football computer game or to help analyse the play of your 
team or opposing team.

Can we call the studdy of football biology or science?

David GLAUDE

PS: I made "computer science" studdy. In the university where I was, 
before computer science had it's own departement (for practical reason) 
it was part of mathematics department.

Gregory Aharonian wrote:
>>There is something abusive in words such as "financial engineering"
>>etc, an attempt to borrow the prestige of applied natural science
>>into a domain which is does not share the features to which a.n.s.
>>owes its prestige, and, from there, to infer that various rules,
>>including patent law, should also be transferred from a.n.s. to
>>that domain.
> 
> There is nothing abusive if you are familiar with modern physics.  If
> you read current physics journals, you will see a growing number of
> physicists applying the tools of moderm physics (especially statistical
> thermodynamics) to analyzing and modeling financial markets and processes.
> There is even a word to describe this growing overlap of economics and
> physics - econophysics (for example, check out the European Web site for
> econophysics - www.unifr.ch/econophysics).
 >
> Greg Aharonian